ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. More than a million tax-exempt organizations exist in the United States, including public charities, private foundations, and civic organizations—not counting the 220,000 religious congregations that are also registered. What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

While some may think corporate philanthropy means writing a check and calling it a day, many corporations seek multilayered, strategic partnerships with nonprofits that fall in line with their core business objectives. Understanding corporate motivations behind corporate philanthropy will help you structure a mutually successful partnership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Allison Fine and I have been looking at artificial intelligence, nonprofits, and philanthropy. with support from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Chronic Homelessness Artificial Intelligence model (CHAI) . Our most recent research, Unlocking Generosity with Artificial Intelligence: The Future of Giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

This week I attended Center for Effective Philanthropy’s conference “ Better Philanthropy: From Data to Impact &# where I participated on a discussion panel about social media, foundations, and grantees. He also added that it is important to have structured information. Kathy Reich offered some context.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

These are some of the questions that Alexa Cortes Culwell and I set out to answer in our new report, The Giving Code: Silicon Valley Nonprofits and Philanthropy. Funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, it reflects a year of research and analysis, including conversations with 300+ community stakeholders. billion to $4.8

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2017

Scalable programs should be based on a strong theory of change or logic model, clearly linking program inputs to outcomes in a way that can be tested and evaluated to determine actual effectiveness. Organizations should examine their own structure and capacity. Who is involved?

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

By definition, board members should be counted on to make sacrificial gifts or at least to consider the organization a high priority for their philanthropy. The governance structure of our housing program required that each of our 12 Section 811 HUD properties had to be corporations and have their own boards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Foundation produced these results as documented by Edelman. The Knight Foundation launched the “ Giving Day Playbook ,” a step-by-step online guide of best practices, templates, checklists, and other resources for community foundations to successfully host a Giving Day in their community.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 12, 2012

What was once a matter of checkbook philanthropy is now decidedly strategic, and the driving forces of CSR revolve around the convergence or fit between the company’s business interests (its customers, product line, and brand) and the offerings of potential nonprofit beneficiaries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The traditional models of organizational leadership clearly don’t apply, but then, which models do? Kathy Reich is program officer for organizational effectiveness and philanthropy at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. So, what are you going to do next to lead, in whatever networks you find yourself?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

A study ( [link] ) funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MacArthur Foundation has found “when digital games were compared to other instruction conditions without digital games, there was a moderate to strong effect in favor of digital games in terms of broad cognitive competencies.”. In Philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Note from Beth : This is an ongoing series from the Organizational Effectiveness Program team at the Packard Foundation about developing their program funding strategy in an open way or what has been dubbed “Learning In Public.” Guest Post by the Packard Foundation OE Team.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2012

and the Rockefeller Foundation, titled: " A New Tool for Scaling Impact: How Social Impact Bonds Can Mobilize Private Capital to Advance Social Good." Social service and nonprofit programs have traditionally been supported through philanthropy and government contracts. One such model is the Social Impact Bond (SIB).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Most often these new experiments have grown out of frustration with the fact that, despite several decades of rapid growth in philanthropy and nonprofits, many of the same social and environmental problems persist, or are getting worse. What models of “collective impact” or multi-stakeholder collaborations have emerged; is there a typology?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

Knight Foundation and Monitor Institute published a new report called “ Connected Citizens &# that looks at the impact of networks on communities, and asks, what do these emerging networks mean for community change? This blog post at the Knight Foundation talks about designing for serendipity in more detail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The model has a natural appeal. We at Monitor Institute have been digging into questions such as these as part of a broader reflection on the networks-focused work of the organizational effectiveness team at the David & Lucile Packard Foundation. Field-wide capacity is never going to be built one organization at a time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Modeling the Network Mindset. As Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation, one of the areas of inquiry as been Network Effectiveness which is part of Organizational Effectiveness area. The question has come up: Does leading networks require a different a skill set than leading organizations?

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Fortunately, there are many formal and informal changes you can implement into your organization’s structure to keep your employees motivated. If your organization takes on corporate philanthropy as an engagement practice, you can change real people’s lives. Talent attraction. Enhanced community impact. Lack of leadership support.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

The science aspect refers to the comprehension of the technical structure upon which those words are arranged” (Blanchard & Bullock, 2010). Grant funding can be a great way for a nonprofit to boost its revenue, with giving by corporations and foundations in the United States in 2013 amounting to $67 billion.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Similarly, companies like Amazon are making it easy for anyone to create powerful natural language processing or computer vision models without needing to build their own complex deep learning infrastructure. Explore more 2019 hopes, predictions, and trends from philanthropy leaders across the globe. EXPLORE MORE TRENDS.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

posted by Abby Elsener Assistant Director of Development, ASU Foundation. These finance models rely upon nonprofits to deliver their programs, yet there is a dearth of guidance for nonprofit leaders to understand the opportunities – and risks – they represent. Heron Foundation, points out, versions of SIBs have existed for decades.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

But my first gift was to the World Wildlife Foundation, and I just … I still support them. So my perspective today is as somebody who’s been studying philanthropy for my career, but also as a passion. That’s how philanthropy has been reflected as well until the most recent years. . billion and above. .

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Autodesk Building Design Suite Premium – This is 3D building design software for simulations, architectural drawing, contractors, structural, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineers. Autodesk’s Philanthropy Plans. Available Software Suites. Find a list of some recipient organizations here. This represents a $7.5

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Connection Cafe

JULY 9, 2018

Hospital marketing and philanthropy teams from across Southern California gathered to explore the concept of the connected hospital and to learn why healthcare organizations should foster connectivity. In May, we were lucky enough to help curate a healthcare marketing summit at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2011

A structure has emerged to serve this purpose, called the Benefit Corporation. B Labs is working to create a new model for business : "When you support a B Corporation, you’re supporting a better way to do business. Both of these new structures allow for companies to operate with a purpose beyond the bottom line.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This is one of my absolute favorite topics in philanthropy, this idea of engaging board members as fundraising ambassadors. We’ll start with a few key trends in philanthropy that will ground our conversation. So A, corporations, B foundations, or C individuals. So for those of you who guessed B, you are correct.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The workshop was presented by the Colorado Association of Funders and the Colorado Nonprofit Association and sponsored by Gill Foundation , Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado , The Colorado Health Foundation , and The Colorado Trust. Colorado Project. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2008

That's a lot of nonprofits, many that are doing similar work and competing for funding from foundations and individual donors. The Prize also seeks to build an information base of effective practice models that can be studied and used by academics, nonprofit leaders and grantmakers to inspire and advance their work."

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Philanthropy is changing, with large benefactors giving way to people giving less and earned income increasing in importance. The opportunity cost was solid digital foundations such as digitisation of collections. If museums actually did change their fundamental structures change might happened but so many are not.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Philanthropy Southwest / Austin, TX / $625. The 33rd Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute features leading nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance and government to discuss the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. Governance. Jan 13 - 15.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Even when there is funding to build a tech solution, perhaps from a large foundation, there is rarely the long-term funding to maintain it, let alone improve it. Another is how funders like the Ford and Sloan Foundations have used our platform to facilitate millions of funding for digital infrastructure research.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

First, we’re going to have like a little bit of an overview of what’s happening in the world of philanthropy. So what’s happening in philanthropy? There is a big difference between a federal application and then a private corporate foundation application. So logic model, this is my tried and true.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

There are four different models of crowdsourcing activities: wisdom, creation, voting, and funding. There’s isn’t one best way to do it – and many organizations use a combination of these models to meet their objectives. Here’s an overview of the different types and some examples for each in philanthropy and doing. (1)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

Government and philanthropy leaders talk today about this groundbreaking research, and you can tweet @AspenInstitute to join the conversation. But rather than replicating each other’s efforts and then charging for access to the results, these groups could follow a more collaborative, open model.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

"This post draws from over 30 in-depth, semi structured interviews conducted with coordinators of and participants in the Egyptian revolution between March and August 2011." " A Roundup of Valuable Twitter Tools – Noupe – A great round up of Twitter tools – some great long-time favorites and some newer tools.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

So both major donors, but big corporate partners, foundations, all of those things. . So what this is, is really about activating your deepest empathy, which is how can you see your organization through the lens of different types of funders, how does a foundation view your organization versus a corporate partner versus an individual.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

So both major donors, but big corporate partners, foundations, all of those things. . So what this is, is really about activating your deepest empathy, which is how can you see your organization through the lens of different types of funders, how does a foundation view your organization versus a corporate partner versus an individual.

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